Legal Opinion
In Re Melton
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 6, 1989No. 85-1589PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERREN, Associate Judge:
Tommie Lee Melton appeals his civil commitment after a jury trial. He claims that, in allowing in evidence the expert opinion testimony of two psychiatric witnesses, the trial court abused its discretion by summarily rejecting appellant’s objections to (1) the psychiatrists’ reliance on hearsay evidence as the basis for their expert opinions and (2) the qualifications of the psychiatrists themselves to render expert opinions about Melton’s dangerousness.1 Because not all *636hearsay can be reasonably relied upon as a basis for expert opinion testimony, and because not all…
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